1955-11-11

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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY AND ORGAN OF THE ALUMNI

VOLUME 68

COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1955

NUMBER 17

NEW METHODS for the study of old languages will be demonstrated this weekend during the Open House celebrating American Education Week. Here Greek students use eye-and-ear methods with the aid of a tape-recorder. Left to right: Cyril Paul, Tom Christian, and Richard Gross.

Install Cinemascope Screen In Auditorium

#A large screen and new equipment  which  will be  capable  of

showing Cinemascope, VistaVi-sion and Superscope motion pictures was installed in the university auditorium this past week.

Tlie newly-installed wide screen, which measures 27 feet by 12 feet, is 10 fe et wider than the old screen. Along with the new screen are two pairs of lenses which are attached to the projector.

The procurator's office has agreed to having the greater part of the cost born by the University, but the Student Council, feeling that the student body ought to show its appreciation in some way, intends to sponsor a raffle to help cover the cost. Pat Cum-mings and John Tilton are chairmen of the committee, which intends to raffie a phonograph.

Heretofore the choice of movies has been severely limited since the greater percentage of all pictures now released are in Cinemascope.

With a much larger selection now available, there will also be a better   grade   of   pictures   next

Council Sets Date For Autumn Dance

# Autumn Nocturne, the first formal dance of the season, will

be held on Nov. 25, in the Granite City Coliseum.

Dancing will take place from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with music provided by Al Noyce and his orchestra, which played at last year's ROTO Military Ball.

Father Boniface Axtman, OSB, dean of men, says that cars will be allowed on campus. _ Tickets will be selling at $2.00 a couple.

The Student Council, sponsors of the dance, named Louis Faust as chairman, Richard Schissel as ticket chairman, John Franz in charge of decorations and Joe Jacobs as publicity chairman.

Since this is the last major dance of 1955, the Autumn Nocturne, which has become an annual event, is expected by the committee to outdraw last year's affair.'

semester, when the Cinemascope pictures, chosen by the Movie Committee, are shown. The Student Council Movie Committee, composed of John Kelly, Charles Kelsh, William Chisholm, Ron Howard and Mike O'Fallon, has spent several hours drawing up "a list of movies that the students will find more acceptable.

Foreign, Lenten, educational and purely entertainment movies make up the list. Their criterion was, of course, the Legion of Decency rating, motion picture reviews, advertisements, the opinions of qualified reviewers, and the committee's own personal experience of having seen some of the movies.

The new equipment had its first testing with the showing of The Glass Slipper on the new wide screen.

Name Baenen Editor Of New 'S/cefc/iboo/c'

By Al Eisele

#Plans for the preparation of the first edition of the Sketchbook were launched last week with the naming of Dick Baenen as editor.

Baenen, a senior from Jamestown, N.D., has named assistant editor Bernard Galm, art editor Jim Burke, and business manager Louis Jost to assist him in the planning and preparation of the book.

Baenen and his staff will work with Father Dunstan Tucker, OSB, who is the Sketchbook advisor and Mr. Paul Dufour, art advisor. Th© entire content of the Sketchbook is student-produced and will include essays, poetry, short stories and book reviews. Art work in the book will be given special emphasis and more art will appear than in previous issues.

Editor Baenen has called the Sketchbook "the only school-wide medium whereby the students can express their creative literary talents." All college students are eligible to contribute. A second issue of the Sketchbook will be published in the spring if there is enough student interest.

CALENDAR

Nov. 13—National  Education Week: Open House Nov. 16—Convo: Panel on Benedictine  Education Nov. 21—Prep Play: Mr. Roberts Nov. 23—Trio da Camera 8:15 Nov. 24—Thanksgiving Day

Schedule Friday Night Dances At Winterhaven

•A new program of Friday night dances has been started for college students at the Winterhaven Ballroom in Sartell, according to Charles Pfeffer, president of the Catholic Students Social Council. This Council, with members from St. John's, St. Benedict's, St. Cloud School of Nursing, and the Newman Club of St. Cloud T.C., sponsors the dances with the cooperation of Father Ra-macher of his parish of St. Francis in Sartell.

Entertainment begins at eight o'clock in the evening and continues until twelve. Bus transportation is provided by the Council at low cost, and there

DANCE—Continued on page 4

Preps Prepare For'Mr. Roberts'

0Twenty-five Johnny Prep Players will give their first play of the

year on Monday evening, Nov. 21. Under the direction of Father Outhbert Soukup, OSB, they will present their version of Mister Roberts, which is, according to Life magazine, "the greatest war play of our generation."

Written by Tom Heggen and Joshua Logan, it is the story of Lieutenant Roberts, a naval officer who is serving on a cargo vessel but wants to get into more active combat duty during the last days of World War II.

Heading the cast will be Martin " Siepp as Mister Roberts. Wyman Spano will take the part of the fatherly "Doc." Ensign Pulver, played by Ed Vessel, will relieve tension with his antics. And Charles Deutsch will be the stubborn Captain of the U.S. Navy Cargo Ship A K 601, on which the action of the play takes place.

Open House For Education Week

By Bill Sullivan

• In   observance  of  American  Education  Week,   as^pro-claimed by President Eisenhower, St. John's will hold an

open house for the general public next Sunday, Nov. 13, beginning at 1:30 p.m.

By this means, St. John's, like other participating institutions of learning, hopes to achieve a more widespread public understanding of the contributions of higher education to a free society.

Father Anthony Dies Suddenly At Graceville

#The solemn pontifical funeral Mass for Father Anthony Ronel-

lenfitsch, OSB, was celebrated at 10 a.m., Tuesday, in the Abbey Church, following the chanting of the Office of the Dead an hour earlier. Burial was in the Abbey cemetery.

Father Anthony .died suddenly on Saturday, Nov. 5, at Holy Trinity hospital, Graceville, where he had been active as chaplain since August, 1953. He was 77.

Born at Balzfeld, Baden, Germany, on Jan. 5, 1878, Father Anthony came to America at the age of six in November, 1884. After completing high school in St. John's Prep, lie entered St. John's University and took his B.A. degree in 1901, after which he entered the seminary.

On July 11,1899, he was invested as a novice and professed simple vows to Abbot Peter on July 29, 1900. He professed solemn perpetual vows on Aug. 30, 1903, and was ordained by the Most Rev. James Trobec, Bishop of St. Cloud, on June 13, 1905. He celebrated his first solemn Mass at Buckman on June 25, 1905.

Before his ordination and while still a cleric, Father Anthony taught history, geography and German in the Prep school. Then in August, 1906, he was assigned to St. Clement's church in Duluth. Thereafter he was engaged in pastoral work for the remainder of his life.

REV. ANTHONY—Continued on page 4

A special invitation to attend has been extended to parents, alumni, and civic leaders of St. Cloud and the surrounding territory.

Highlight of the day will be a panel presentation on the general theme of "Benedictine Education" in the auditorium at 1:30 p.m.

After a welcoming address by Abbot Baldwin, Father Vincent Tegeder, OSB, general chairman for the event, will introduce the following panel members, who will speak briefly on the topics indicated: Father Benedict Avery, OSB:

"The Benedictines" •   Father Colman Barry, OSB:

"Highlights    of    St.    John' s' History"

Father Walter Reger, OSB: "The   Benedictine   View   of Education"

Father Florian Muggli, OSB: "Financial Administration" Mr. Emerson Hynes:

"St.   John's   and  the   Community"

A feature of the auditorium program will be the appearance of the St. John's Men's Chorus singing ' 'Alma Mater'' and Grieg's "God's Son Has Made Me Free."

At 2:30 p.m., immediately following the panel, guided tours of the campus will be organized for visitors. Included on the tours will be stops in the science hall, the ROTC offices, the gymnasium, the art department, the library, the audio-visual aids room and the Liturgical Press.

Many of the academic departments have prepared Exhibits of interest to the general public. Tours will end in the cafeteria in St. Mary's hall, where refreshments will be served.

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LT. COL. William Lorimer arrived last week to take over officially as Professor of Military Science and Tactics and director of the ROTC unit here.